QUOTE]Wow...no wonder Sailors and Marines fight when we're drunk...we fight on BBS's sober about what to call a big hunk of haze grey and underway![/QUOTE]
Hey, anyone can call it anything they want...I was just coming to the defense of a fellow Marine who I felt was slighted for trying to do the right thing. Like I said, in boot camp they never said "It's a ship...unless you're talking with someone wearing brown shoes." Here is a definition of "boat" that I found on [
Hazegray.org:
Boat - (1) Traditional term of reference for a submarine. (2) Traditional aviation term used to refer to an aircraft carrier. (3) Any small vessel incapable of making regular independent voyages on the high seas. The traditional differentiator is that "ships carry boats."
And "Brownshoe":
Brownshoe - Member of the aviation community. Refers to the brown boots or shoes which once were worn by aviation personnel with the Aviation Green uniform. Unauthorized footgear for a while, but recently re-approved for all USN service communities.
I guess that is one of the things that I love about the Marines. There is but one uniform. By looking at a Marine, there is no way of telling whether his MOS is cook or recon. We don't have different color shoes or beanie caps. I was livid when after the first Gulf War we had to actually put our names on our uniforms! Every Marine is a rifleman, after that some others have additional duties, but first & foremost they are all Marines.
'canfly
BTW: When you go to Hazegray.org check out the definition of "BOSNIA." Pretty funny I thought.
